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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cretinous
Adjective
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So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Second, this rationale for regulation proved to be illogical and fatuous as conceded by U.S. Courts and the Federal Communications Commission in the decades since.—
Carine Harb,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The O’Haras happen to move in next door to him. Frothy and often filthy without being brainless (send thanks across the Atlantic for that good British dialogue), this is escapism done right.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
30 Oct. 2024
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So, what can the neuronal activity of a tiny, brainless creature possibly tell us about the evolution of our own complex brains?—
Elizabeth Rayne,
Ars Technica,
15 June 2024
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The president is an aspirational dictator, and no transparently vacuous rhetoric can undercut this glaring truth that informs the collusive efforts of Russian and U.S. actions.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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This circles back to the comment about the Australian government’s investment in Australian cinema, is that when in the earlier drafts of the script, Ken (Grace’s husband) was just a bit vacuous, one-dimensional.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The recluse of 30 years comes out of hibernation and emerges with a new album that fires up more brain-dead devotion and fawning.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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The first transplants were short-term experiments in patients who were brain-dead, so there was no further risk to human health.—
Amber Dance,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
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When Luca pulls a gun on him, ordering him to drive, Spencer quickly disarms him and then slaps him for the stupid move.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
9 Mar. 2025
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Indexing gives you a better chance to ‘be less stupid.’ — Investment advisor Barry Ritholtz Those dismal statistics come to us via the latest annual SPIVA scorecard (the acronym stands for Standard and Poor’s Index vs. Active).—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.—
Chandler Dean,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2023
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Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.—
Tony Dajer,
Discover Magazine,
30 July 2020
Adjective
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Google had to re-edit a Super Bowl ad for its artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini because the original ad had Gemini seeming artificially unintelligent.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
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Witherspoon’s timing is whip-crack good, and Ferrell’s is, too, on a different wavelength, even when the material’s settling for surprisingly witless profanity punchlines that don’t quiiiiite qualify as actual jokes.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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But this latest effort, premiering on Prime Video, proves a relentlessly vulgar and witless affair that not even the talents of stars Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon and a comedically gifted supporting cast can rescue.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Cretinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cretinous. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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